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Literary Devices

Deus ex machina, unreliable narrator, breaking the fourth wall — the tools of storytellers, now standard vocabulary for anyone who watches TV or argues about plot online.

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Plot Armor

The invisible protection that keeps key characters alive because the story needs them.

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Red Herring

A misleading clue planted to draw attention away from the real one.

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Red Herring

An irrelevant point introduced into an argument or story to distract from the main issue.

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The Fourth Wall

The imaginary boundary between fiction and audience — sometimes deliberately broken.